My latest feature in Wired is just out (on the newsstands at the moment; not yet online but I’ll post it when it is online here). It’s a profile of Numenta, a new company founded by Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo. Hawkins has been studying neuroscience on his own for the last couple of decades, and co-wrote a book about the fundamentals of intelligence and the human cortex, called On Intelligence, back in 2005. Numenta is his attempt to put the ideas from the book into practice, and build a new kind of artificial intelligence technology. It looks something like this:
Make sense? Well, hopefully the story explains in a somewhat intelligible fashion. I’m hoping to elaborate on a few things in the article here over the next week — there are some tricky issues in discussing any technology at such an early stage — but in the meantime feel free to offer opinions in the comments, or send me an email at the address to the right.
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